Fact-check: “In January 2025, the Trump administration cut off funding for a long-running natural hazards program that aimed to identify and monitor landslide hotspots in Nepal.”
Verdict: Mostly True (82% confidence)
Multiple independent sources confirm a stop-work order hit the SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya program around the end of January 2025, halting its Nepal landslide-monitoring work — the program's own former director confirmed this, and the SERVIR Global website states USAID funding came to a close after the January 2025 foreign-aid freeze. The minor qualification is that the program had been running since 2010 and some data tools it initiated continue to operate, and the State Department says the U.S…
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